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I believe that it is good that there is no winner. If you look at vim and emacs specifically their thinking is very different. I would say that with the best pl
by erikb 11y ago
I believe that it is good that there is no winner. If you look at vim and emacs specifically their thinking is very different. I would say that with the best plugins, config and skills in the world you would not be able to make one as good as the other in the others corresponding strength. Each is a winner in their own regards.
- cies 11y agoI think we have 2 winners: Emacs on the "platform" (superior scripting language (elisp), better external process management, better instrumentation). Vim on the modal-editing interface: you can find it in nearly all editors (and even browsers) nowadays. A combination of the two would be awesome, correction "is" awesome: http://spacemacs.org http://spacemacs.org
- erydo 11y agoNever seen that before, that looks really interesting!
- ageofwant 11y agoAnd then of course people like the spacemacs leader-key binding and port it back to vim :-) https://github.com/jimmay5469/vim-spacemacs https://github.com/jimmay5469/vim-spacemacs https://github.com/sunaku/vim-shortcut https://github.com/sunaku/vim-shortcut https://github.com/sthysel/vim-spacemacs https://github.com/sthysel/vim-spacemacs
- cies 11y agoI should use that! I try to keep a vim config that is mostly compatible with my Emacs setup (for when I'm remotely logged in to a place that has my dotfiles, but not emacs). Sure I know about tramp-mode, but sometimes having vim around saves the day.
- tetraodonpuffer 11y agoeven without going full spacemacs you can do what I do, install evil, have it set to emacs editing by default, and set up a keybinding to go into vi editing (I use double-caps) it's awesome and really best of both worlds This said it is exciting to see vim being updated, I use vim quite a bit if I am ssh-ing places and the more functionality the better